Intellectual Property

In a long-running intellectual property fight with the University of Sydney, an expert witness for ophthalmic diagnostic device maker ObjectiVision has been grilled in the witness box over a report that claims parts of the company's AccuMap system was copied.

A judge overseeing Motorola Solutions' patent infringement suit against Hytera Communications has ordered the Chinese company to hand over documents in evidence in the companies' U.S. litigation ahead of producing documents held in China.

A judge has fined two companies for selling garage-door remote controls that infringe three Australian patents owned by U.S.-based The Chamberlain Group.

Australian biotech company Holista Colltech has resolved litigation over ASX announcements that said it was collaborating with a Nobel Prize nominee to file a patent for the world's first low-GI sugar.

CSIRO has won a challenge to an application for a mining patent filed by mining giant Rio Tinto, with an IP Australia delegate finding no patentable subject matter could be claimed.

Sending an email of advice to third parties does not necessarily constitute waiver of legal professional privilege, a Federal Court judge has ruled, siding with the University of Sydney in an intellectual property dispute with ObjectiVision.

Printer cartridge seller Calidad may take its arguments over the exhaustion of patent rights to the High Court, the company told the Federal Court in its challenge to an infringement win for Japanese electronics giant Seiko Epson.

Telstra and Vodafone have reached a mid-trial deal to end an infringement case alleging use of GPS technology by the telcos to track customer phones violates a 1994 patent.

Air France has denied claims of copyright infringement by the writers of "Love is in the Air", saying its "France is in the Air" song and ad campaign are derived from a different, original work.

The Australian Patent Office has invalidated two insecticide patents by Bayer on a challenge by rival Syngenta, with a delegate of the agency ruling the inventions' claims were obvious.